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Happy Birthday
Buon Compleanno
Chicken, cotechino, eggs, wine.
Cheese, toothbrush, cookies and sanitary towels.
Today I turn thirty. Not that many but I’m not at all happy and I hate this supermarket.
I always forget to buy something and it’s the third time that I’ve had to come back.
I don’t know why I decided to celebrate tonight, I don’t feel like cooking and I don’t want
to hear my mother say that it is late.
Late to find a man who will put up with me and to have a job that doesn’t change every
month. My dad will keep quiet and my brother will start to talk about how much he paid for
his new car.
I don’t have a car, I use the bus and my bicycle, and when he starts talking I think that,
deep down, I never liked him.
Tonight maybe he’ll tell the story of how he made me stand still and keep a pigeon
on my head.
Pigeons smell and carry many diseases.
He laughed.
I was silent.
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Pollo, cotechino, uova, vino.
Formaggio, spazzolino, biscotti e assorbenti.
Oggi compio trent’anni. Non sono tanti ma non mi piacciono affatto e odio questo supermercato.
Dimentico sempre di comprare qualcosa ed è la terza volta che torno indietro.
Non so perché ho deciso di festeggiare stasera, non ho voglia di cucinare né di sentirmi dire
da mia madre che è tardi.
Tardi per trovare un uomo che riesca a sopportarmi e per avere un lavoro che non cambi ogni
mese. Mio padre starà zitto e mio fratello prenderà a raccontare di quanto ha pagato la sua
nuova macchina.
Io non ho una macchina, mi muovo in autobus e in bicicletta, e quando lui comincia a parlare
mi viene in mente che, in fondo, non mi è mai piaciuto.
Stasera magari racconterà di quando mi obbligò a stare ferma immobile e a tenere un piccione
in testa.
I piccioni puzzano e portano un sacco di malattie.
Lui rideva.
Io stavo zitta.
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